Jennifer Johnston travels from Morocco’s High Atlas mountain range to Erg Chebbi desert - in pursuit of the Sahara sunrise she’s waited 60 years to see. The 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia left a ...

Ride Mauritania’s legendary Iron Ore Train across the Sahara, a remarkable journey through one of the world’s most remote ...

I appear to have chosen the bumpiest camel in the herd, but there’s not much I can do about it now. I hold on tight and peer around. We’re adrift in a sea of apricot-coloured dunes, a scene more ...

The Mauritania Railway operates one of the longest and heaviest trains in the world — a freight train up to 2.5 kilometers long, pulled by 3-4 American diesel locomotives, carrying 17,000 tons of iron ...

Douz, the beating heart of Tunisia's Sahara region, serves as the primary gateway known internationally as the Douz Sahara-Tor, perfectly positioned amid palm groves and encroaching dunes. Visitors ...

The Sahara Desert near Merzouga, Morocco, reveals an expansive landscape of rolling sand dunes stretching toward the horizon.

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Call me slow, but it takes me a while to understand that we are embarking on a journey into the Sahara. We ...

The largest hot desert in the world is vast and desolate, yet the Sahara is also home to a diverse array of plant, animal, and human life. It is the biggest desert of its kind in the world — almost as ...